The General Assembly of European Left discussed about up coming European election. Tiina Sandberg the general secretary of CPF was asking more co-operation with social movements and wanted to clear the position of Left Alliance towards NATO-compatible fighter planes.

European Left (EL) General Assembly, Council of Chairpersons and the Executive Board decide about Manifesto on EU elections. Chairperson of SKP, JP (Juha-Pekka) Väisänen sees the political EL-collaboration in EU elections remarkable in the struggle against capitalism and imperialism.

New hope is springing up in Europe. A new vision is inspiring growing numbers of Europeans and uniting them to join in great mobilisations to resist the imposition of a capitalist one-way street that is an attempt to trap humanity in a new social and cultural regression. Read the Manifesto of the Party of the European Left (EL) now at our website.

More NGO´s and organizers than ever now acting together for building up next Vastavirta Festival 2018 in Helsinki. Vastavirta Festival is an European open and political forum for radical activity, progressive collaboration and advocacy by those doing the doing.

Former Chairperson of the Communist Party of Finland and Member of the European Left Working Group for Central and Eastern Europe Yrjö Hakanen gave a speech at the International Conference ”100th Anniversary of the Great October Revolution: Lessons and the Future of the Left” in Chisinau 27.-28.10.2017

Tiago Silva member of the European Left Migration Working Gropu and Chairman of Turku’s Regional Organisation of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) finds both the Marseille Forum and the Catania conference, which the European Left is organising together with other left-wing forces, most important steps. Silva says in his Berling meeting speech that the bright side of the Finnish migartion scenario, is that the government’s xenophobic programme has met opposition from a great part of the Finnish society and from the asylum seekers themselves, with big demonstrations in favour of a multicultural Finland and with active protests against deportations of asylum seekers.